My Ed Puzzle - Tips for Being a Successful Online Student
My Ted Ed - Tips for Online Student Success
Educational videos promote learning in many ways, according to a summary of current research in the article, "Using Educational Video in the Classroom: Theory, Research and Practice By Emily Cruse M.Ed." The article states that educational video reinforces reading and lecture material, aids in the development of a common base of knowledge among students, enhances student comprehension and discussion, provides greater accommodation of diverse learning styles, increases student motivation and enthusiasm, and promotes teacher effectiveness.
Additionally, educational videos humanize the online classroom in ways that text and audio alone cannot. For example, video captures tone as well as non-verbal queues that provide a more accurate presentation of information than text alone. Additionally, video taps into multiple intelligences such as spacial, khinistetic, musical and facilitates the use of interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.
The khan Academy as well as Ted Ed are excellent examples of educational technology platforms utilizing video in the learning process. Video enables students to watch, learn, test themselves, re-watch, learn again, test again, until the student has mastered the concept. It provides an excellent way for self-paced project based learning. Additionally, videos are a great way to capture and synthesize complex concepts that include a lot of information into bight sized applicable information. Here is a good example of a video summarizing Steven Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The visuals and audio narration in this video promote deeper learning and appeal to visual learners like me:
According to the research study, "Video prompts for self-regulated learning: Metacognition and reflection activity" by Janet Sedgley, she analyzed the effectiveness of video prompts for activating metacognitive monitoring and reflection toward increased SRL. Study revealed that video prompts reduced participants’ tendencies to complete the study and Participants who completed the study received a course grade two letter grades higher than those who did not complete the study. I will say the study was fairly complicated and challenging to understand, and perhaps including a 5 minute video summary of the study, methods, findings, and conclusion would have been really beneficial. Dr. Sedgley asserts that "video prompts may be similar to educational video in engaging learners, reducing cognitive load, providing more immediate externally facilitated regulation, and combating the transaction distance of asynchronous WBLE." However, their is more research that needs to be conducted in this area.
Sedgley, J. (2015). Video prompts for self-regulated learning: Metacognition and reflection activity.
Hi Terence!
ReplyDeleteGreat blog post about education online videos and their benefits as well as concerns with implementation. Your Edpuzzle and TedEd links regarding the ways to be successful as an online student were helpful and reinforced your posting. I appreciated your recognition of how an online and/or educational video can help "humanize" the experiences one might learn about. You are correct that hearing audio that sets the tone on a setting or graphics that align with audio or text can help reinforce the messaging for learners. It is hard to talk about something that was not necessarily experienced by the learner or a younger teacher but having educational video with others talking about their experiences can tap into this deeper learning constructivist approach to linking knowledge in the classroom. I also agree with Sedgley's (2015) findings regarding the use of video to teach self-regulated learning as exemplified through out two online video activities. By forcing learners to interact with the video as well as asking questions beyond the simple beginning of Bloom's taxonomy, the behavior of learners becomes one that looks for deeper meaning and enhances critical thinking skills in questioning and curiosity that can only be helpful for future growth in knowledge.
Andrew Hazelton